Baldur's Gate 2 - Enhanced Edition Will Feature 350,000 More Words

Dualshockers has a small news article that talks about Baldur's Gate 2 - Enhanced Edition.

Did you Like Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition? I did. If you agree you probably already know that Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Edition is currently being worked on at Overhaul Games.

What you possibly didn’t yet know is the sheer size of the additional content that the remake will bring. Producer and Writer Phillip Daigle revealed on his personal Twitter account that the team wrote 350,000 words for of new content, and they’re going to try to get some of those many lines voiced.

That giant wall of text (and hopefully voice) adds to the 1.2 million words of the original, ensuring that even those that already played the game a metric ton of times like I did, will definitely have quite a lot to discover with the remake.

I'm all for unlocking content that was completed before the original release but not put into the final game-- assuming said content has been fixed, of course. But adding brand new content exclusive to the EE is not something I am in favor of.

of course I'll buy it, because it's Baldur's Gate! The only thing I would really like to see is better avatar graphics. What use is zoom if all you see are blocks? I get that they lost the 2D art, but please remake the avatars!

When the hell are they going to update the ipad version of the original? It still has many problems like slowdown during aoe spells and they havent addresss this while working on the sexond already? Makes no sense for your mobile fans. Plus, it hasnt even been minor updated in like a month. I blame this on the pcrpg community including RPGFan hating apple.

Originally Posted by AppleIntimidation
I blame this on the pcrpg community including RPGFan hating apple.

RPGFan is a more heavily console centric site and considering their traditional RPG of the year award went to a console-only JRPG the last years in a row, I don't think they at all represent the CRPG crowd as much as a JRPG crowd that also plays a few WRPGs but mostly on consoles. Their editors might view the iPad as some crazy contraption trying to be a nintendo DS but without the buttons. Or maybe by using yourself as the measure their dispassionate disinterest in Apple and Apple products merely seems like hate by comparison.

If they updated it, they could make it work and a huge success with a new audience. Why do they have to be so lazy? The touchscreen is just fine for this type of game as long as its at least as latge as the iPad Mini's.